Girl

Girl

A girl is any female human from birth through childhood and adolescence to attainment of adulthood when she becomes a woman. The term may also be used to mean a young woman.

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Famous quotes containing the word girl:

    ““A girl I had, but she followed another,
    Money I had, and it went in the night,
    Strong drink I had, and it brought me to sorrow,
    But a good strong cause and blows are delight.”
    All there caught up the tune:
    “On, on, my darling man.””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room.”
    —George Axelrod (1922)

    “I want the kind of job that is interesting but doesn’t take very much time.”
    —Anonymous 14-year-old, U.S. niece of author Jane O’Reilly. As quoted in The Girl I Left Behind, ch. 7, by Jane O’Reilly (1980)